SERMON NOTES
Fruit of the Spirit AND Gifts of the Sprit
Galatians 5 & 1 Corinthians 12
| FRUIT |
GIFTS |
| Love |
Wisdom |
| Joy |
Knowledge |
| Peace |
Faith |
| Patience |
Healing |
| Kindness |
Miracles |
| Goodness |
Prophecy |
| Faithfulness |
Discernment of Spirits |
| Gentleness |
Tongues |
| Self-Control |
Interpretation of Tongues |
Encounter Night Wed, Sept 30 at 6:30pm
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
Galatians 5:22-23
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control…
GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 12:7-11
A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
- What’s your church experience like when it comes to the teaching of the Holy Spirit?
- When it comes to ‘fruit of the Spirit,’ where have you grown and where do you still need God’s help?
- When did you last experience a gift of the Spirit in/through you?
- How can you walk with Jesus to experience more growth (fruit) and see more power (gifts)?
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SERMON NOTES
JOHN 14:15-24 (NIV)
(15) “If you love me, keep my commands. (16) And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— (17) the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. (18) I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. (19) Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. (20) On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. (21) Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” (22) Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” (23) Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. (24) Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
JOHN 16:7 (NIV)
But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
- What does John 14 tell us about the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives? How have you experienced that?
- How do you think the disciples felt when Jesus told them, "It is better for you that I go" (John 16:7)
- Have you ever been led or taught by the Holy Spirit in a surprising way? What is that like?
- How do you experience the Holy Spirit's direction when you study the scripture?
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SERMON NOTES
JOHN 14:23-27 (NLT)
(23) Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. (24) Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me. (25) I am telling you these things now while I am still with you. (26) But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. (27) “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.
THE HOLY SPIRIT PROMISES YOU PEACE
- JOHN 14:27 (NLT)
“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.”
- As Christians, it’s common to think about miracles and the power of God when we’re talking about the Holy Spirit…but perhaps more than anything right now, the world needs the peace of Christ.
- This idea of peace really draws on all the created order — a real sense of Shalom, or the idea that everything is functioning and working the way it was always intended to be.
- The Holy Spirit gives a peace that can rest on you and be felt.
YOU CAN HAVE PEACE WITH GOD
- Peace with God is a gift given to us.
- Nothing brings peace like the Holy Spirit.
- This kind of peace between you and God starts the moment you surrender your life to Jesus.
YOU CAN HAVE PEACE WITH YOURSELF
- You don’t have to be bound by endless anxiety, stress, sleepless nights, or worrisome thoughts about the future.
- You aren’t being removed from spiritual hardships; you are given peace in the midst of it all.
- Biblical Meditation is where the goal is to be filled with God’s Spirit, His presence, and His eternal word.
- Psalm 63:3 & 6 (NLT)
- Psalm 19:14 (NLT)
- Psalm 46 (NLT)
- God has promised to give you the gift of peace through the Holy Spirit, but many of us stop before the gift is experienced.
YOU CAN HAVE PEACE WITH OTHERS
- People can experience the peace of God in and through you, and it’s a wonderful witness to the love and presence of Christ.
- Jesus died so you can experience peace, and of course that means in your relationships.
- When it comes to peace with others, we’ve traded what Christ died for — which is true peace — and we’ve traded it for temporary relief.
- “We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.” - Thomas Merton
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
- What’s your background/church history when it comes to the Holy Spirit? How has the Vineyard influenced your walk with the Holy Spirit?
- Share a story about how you’ve experienced the Holy Spirit?
- What battles are you facing that need God’s power?
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SERMON NOTES
Spirit = Ruach (רוּחַ)
THE HOLY SPIRIT PROMISES TO FILL YOU WITH POWER
- If you ever have a hope to experience God, grow spiritual fruit, and embrace even a fraction of the fullness of what God has for you — it requires the power of the Holy Spirit.
- JOHN 14:12 (NLT)
(12) “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.
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- “Same” happens. I’m still waiting for the “greater” though.
- ROMANS 8:11 (NLT)
(11) The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
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- The King of the Universe, the Lord of Lords, the uncreated One, who raised Christ from the dead lives in you.
- Naturally Supernatural
THE KINGDOM LIFE ISN’T JUST ABOUT “TALK” BUT “POWER”
- The Spirit of God has come for so much more than mindful recognition.
- 1 CORINTHIANS 4:20 (NLT)
(20) For the Kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God’s power.
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- You are in a battle.
- Spiritual battles are real and the devil wants to ruin your life.
- EPHESIANS 6:10-12 (NLT)
(10) A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. (11) Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. (12) For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.
- You need the power of God to set you free.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
- What’s your background/church history when it comes to the Holy Spirit? How has the Vineyard influenced your walk with the Holy Spirit?
- Share a story about how you’ve experienced the Holy Spirit?
- What battles are you facing that need God’s power?
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SERMON NOTES
JOHN 18:1-12 (NLT)
(1) After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees. (2) Judas, the betrayer, knew this place, because Jesus had often gone there with his disciples. (3) The leading priests and Pharisees had given Judas a contingent of Roman soldiers and Temple guards to accompany him. Now with blazing torches, lanterns, and weapons, they arrived at the olive grove. (4) Jesus fully realized all that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them. “Who are you looking for?” he asked. (5) “Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied. “I Am he,” Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.) (6) As Jesus said “I Am he,” they all drew back and fell to the ground! (7) Once more he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” And again they replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.” (8) “I told you that I Am he,” Jesus said. “And since I am the one you want, let these others go.” (9) He did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.” (10) Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest’s slave. (11) But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering the Father has given me?” Jesus at the High Priest’s House (12) So the soldiers, their commanding officer, and the Temple guards arrested Jesus and tied him up.
SURRENDER = YIELD
TO YIELD MEANS YOUR POWER SHOWS UP DIFFERENTLY
- We bear the image of God and He has bestowed or placed some of His power upon us and even within us.
- God has given you agency, a will, and the ability to exert power in various degrees in your life, so to surrender doesn’t actually mean you give up all of your power, but it 100% means your power shows up differently.
- Surrender is the way of the cross; it is the way of the Christian.
TO YIELD MEANS GOD’S WILL > YOUR WILL
- And a life of surrender means allowing the power of God to direct your steps instead of going wherever you want to go.
TO YIELD MEANS YOU EMBRACE SUFFERING
- To yield and surrender to God means there will be times we embrace the pain of the cross, not run from it.
- God’s primary purpose is not to make your life more comfortable here on earth; God’s ultimate purpose is to make you more like Christ.
- The greatest power of Christ was on display not through the escape of suffering but through His embrace.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
- How are you encouraged/challenged by Murray’s idea that Surrender = Yield?
- How does surrender, suffering, and faith get lived out in your life today?
- Where is God teaching you to surrender today?
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SERMON NOTES
LUKE 18:18-27 (NLT)
(18) Once a religious leader asked Jesus this question: “Good Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” (19) “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “Only God is truly good. (20) But to answer your question, you know the commandments: ‘You must not commit adultery. You must not murder. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. Honor your father and mother.’” (21) The man replied, “I’ve obeyed all these commandments since I was young.” (22) When Jesus heard his answer, he said, “There is still one thing you haven’t done. Sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” (23) But when the man heard this he became very sad, for he was very rich. (24) When Jesus saw this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God! 25In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!” (26) Those who heard this said, “Then who in the world can be saved?” (27) He replied, “What is impossible for people is possible with God.”
SURRENDER UNDERSTANDING
JOHN 3:3-10 (NLT)
(3) Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.” (4) “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?” (5) Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. (6) Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. (7) So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’ (8) The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.” (9) “How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked. (10) Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things?
- We’re after a life that surpasses this age, we’re after a life that is better than what we’re experiencing in our day-to-day, and we’re after a life that is empowered by God not our own efforts.
JOHN 6:35-40 (NLT)
(35) Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. (36) But you haven’t believed in me even though you have seen me. (37) However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them. (38) For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will. (39) And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them up at the last day. (40) For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”
- Only Jesus can fill you and quench your spiritual thirst.
- Communion is an act of surrender.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
- How are you partnering with the Holy Spirit to give birth to spiritual things in your life today?
- What’s your history when it comes to communion and what’s your current experience of it today?
- Are there any areas in your life where you need to surrender your own understanding? How do you need God to move in those areas today?
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SERMON NOTES
“Defeat and Surrender always feel the same to me, but what does it matter? They both bring me to my knees.”
- Mumford & Sons, Surrender
“The essence of surrender is getting out of the way so that God can do what He wants to do.”
- AW Tozer
JOHN 3:26-30 (NLT)
(26) So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Rabbi, the man you met on the other side of the Jordan River, the one you identified as the Messiah, is also baptizing people. And everybody is going to him instead of coming to us.” (27) John replied, “No one can receive anything unless God gives it from heaven. (28) You yourselves know how plainly I told you, ‘I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for him.’ (29) It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the bridegroom’s friend is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows. Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success. (30) He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.
EVERY GOOD THING YOU HAVE COMES FROM GOD
- Humans like to take ownership of anything that is good.
- Our calling is always to move from owner to steward in everything we have.
YOU ARE NOT THE STAR OF THE SHOW
- Whatever you do, be like John: happy to stand with the Lord, happy to make Him famous, and happy to draw people’s attention to the bridegroom.
- It’s easy to start with Jesus at the center and most important place in our life but slowly and over time kind of push him off to the side.
SURRENDER & JOY GO TOGETHER
- The Upside-Down Kingdom of God
- You can live by holding onto your own importance but when you surrender your heart, your life, your daily habits, and everything… just watch the joy of the Lord flood into your life.
- He must increase, I must decrease.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
- What areas of your life are easy to surrender/what areas are difficult?
- Who inspires you to live a life of surrender and why?
- How have you experienced surrender & joy working together? If never, how can you imagine it working?
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SERMON NOTES
JEREMIAH 23:5-6 (NLT)
(5) “For the time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David’s line. He will be a King who rules with wisdom. He will do what is just and right throughout the land. (6) And this will be his name: ‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’ In that day Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety.
JEREMIAH 33:14-16 (NLT)
(14) “The day will come, says the Lord, when I will do for Israel and Judah all the good things I have promised them. (15) “In those days and at that time I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David’s line. He will do what is just and right throughout the land. (16) In that day Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this will be its name: ‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’
BECAUSE OF THE PROMISE OF JESUS, YOU CAN BE SAVED.
- When the Bible talks about being saved, it’s talking about being saved for eternity but also about being saved continually.
- Left to ourselves, our sin, our shame, our fears, and our failures have a way of keeping us bound. We need a Savior.
BECAUSE OF THE PROMISE OF JESUS, YOU CAN EXPERIENCE SAFETY.
- One of the most overlooked blessings of God’s presence is the gift of safety.
- Fear shapes the way we interact with one another.
- Fear has a way of shrinking our lives—and that isn’t the life Jesus came to give us.
BECAUSE OF THE PROMISE OF JESUS, YOU CAN RECEIVE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.
- Yahweh Tsidkenu: The LORD Is Our Righteousness
- The word tsidkenu means righteousness, justice, and being made right. It carries the idea of something being straight or aligned the way it was always meant to be.
- He doesn’t simply tell us to become more righteous—He shares His righteousness with us.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
- “What do you need Jesus to save you from?”
Jeremiah reminds us that God meets His people in the middle of their captivity, and Natalie shared that salvation isn’t only about the moment we first give our lives to Jesus—it’s also about continually allowing Him to rescue us from the things that hold us captive. Is there an area of your life right now where you need Jesus to save or rescue you again? What makes it difficult to surrender that area to Him?
- “What would change if you truly believed you were safe with God?”
We talked about how fear can cause us to protect ourselves, isolate, avoid vulnerability, and even shrink our lives. Where do you tend to live out of fear or self-protection, and what do you think it would look like to experience more of God’s safety in that area? How might that change the way you relate to God, yourself, or other people?
- “The LORD is our righteousness.” — Jeremiah 33:16
Yahweh Tsidkenu reminds us that our righteousness isn’t something we achieve through performance; it is something we receive through Christ. Where are you most tempted to prove yourself, hide your failures, or measure your worth by your performance? What would it look like this week to live from Christ’s righteousness rather than trying to establish your own?
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SERMON NOTES
JEREMIAH 29:4-7, 10-11 (NLT)
(4) This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives he has exiled to Babylon from Jerusalem: (5) “Build homes, and plan to stay. Plant gardens, and eat the food they produce. (6) Marry and have children. Then find spouses for them so that you may have many grandchildren. Multiply! Do not dwindle away! (7) And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.”...(10) This is what the Lord says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. (11)For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
YOU ARE A RESIDENT
- God is basically telling His people to settle in, to settle down, and to get used to Babylon because they’ll be there for multiple generations.
- God wants you to build a life that is so planted and foundational that it gets passed down from generation to generation.
- You are living in Babylon but don’t become Babylonians.
YOU ARE A RESIDENT MISSIONARY
- Don’t just work for your survival, work for the peace and prosperity of the city. Don’t just pray to God from Babylon, pray for Babylon.
- God is calling for His exiled people to pray for the occupying empire to be blessed.
- We’re called to “Join God’s Mission Transforming All Things.”
YOU ARE A RESIDENT MISSIONARY VISIONARY
- And our vision is clear: the future hope of Jesus Christ.
- It’s our hope in Jesus Christ that fuels our mission and this same hope and future is what the world around us is desperate for.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
- God’s work is rarely quick but always certain: how have you experienced this biblical truth in your life?
- How are you working & praying for the prosperity of your city?
- Where do you need the hope of Jesus Christ in your life today? (And who else needs the same promise?)
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